Meat-block-planing device.



D.- F. DEMPSEY.

MEAT BLOCK PLANING DEVICE.

APPLICATION FILED SEPT.19.190B.

Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

WITNESSES UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

DOMINIC F. DEMPSEY, 0F COREY, PENNSYLVANIA, ASSIGNOR To THOMAS J. DEMPSEY, 0F comw,

PENNSYLVANIA.

ME AT-B LOCK-PLANING DE VICE T 0 all whom it may concern:

3e it known that I, DOMINIO F. DEMPsEY, a citizen of the United States, and residing at Corry, in the county of Erie and State of Pennsylvania, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Meat-Block-Planing Devices, of which the following is a specification, such as will enable those skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention relates to devices for planing ol'i or redressing meat blocks; and the object thereof is to provide an improved device of this class which is comparatively inexpensive in construction and e'flicient in operation, and which may be quickly and easily attached to a meat block, and by means of which the said block may be easily re-planed or re-dressed in a comparatively short space of time; and with these and other objects in view the invention consists in a device of the class specified constructed as hereinafter described and claimed.

The invention is fully disclosed in the following specification of which the accompanying drawing forms. a part, in which the separate parts of my improvement are designated by suitable reference characters in each of the views, and in which Figure 1 is a plan View of a meat block with my improved planing device attached thereto, Fig. 2 a sectional side view of the planing device detached, and F-Fig. 3 a section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 2.

In the drawing forming part of this specification, I have shown at a, Fig. 1, a meat block, and in the construction of my ,improved planing device I provide a pivot block b which is rotatably mounted on abase plate provided on its bottom surface with teeth or prongs 6 adapted to be driven into the block, and the pivot block b is provided with a knob or head o which is preferably made rotatable on said block Z). I also provide a plane 0 composed of a bottom plate 7 c and s1de plates 0 through whlch is passed a rod or bar (Z which is also passed loosely through the pivot block 7) and which may be adjusted longitudinally in said block, and secured therein at any desired point by means of a set screw (F.

The rod or bar cl is composed of two parts pivotally connected at (Z so as to permit the plane 0 to swing in a vertical plane, and one Specification of Letters Patent.

Application filed September 19, 1908.

Serial No. 453,728.

of the parts of said rod or bar is preferably provided with an extension (Z having a slot cl formed therein through which is passed a thumb screw d which also passes through the other part of said rod or bar, and by means of which the separate parts of said rod or bar may be made rigid if desired, and the plane held at an inclination to that part of said rod or bar which passes through the block Z).

The plane 0 is also provided with a blade 0* which is placed therein in the manner shown in Figs. 2 and 3, and the front lower end of said blade projects through a transverse opening 0 in the bottom plate c of the plane and is provided with a cutting edge a. The blade 0 ranges downwardly and forwardly and upwardly and backwardly, and placed thereunder is a block 0 and in the rear end of the plane is a fixed nut 0 and through which is passed a set screw 0" which bears on the block 0 and by means of which said block may be forced forwardly so as to bear on the bottom side of the blade 0*. The plane is also provided with a transverse bar or rod 6 arranged forwardly of and over the blade 0*, and in practice a wedge c is driven in between said bar or rod and the blade. The rod or bar cl where it passes through the plane is over the blade c and also serves to aid in holding saidblade in position. The slot or opening 0 in the bottom blade 0 of the plane is arranged diagonally and the cutting edge 0 of the blade is correspondingly formed as clearly indicated in Figs. 1 and 2. The blade 0 is also of less width than the plane, or of less transverse dimensions than the space between the sides 0 of the plane, and said blade may be so arranged in the plane that only one side portion of the edge thereof will cut, or said blade may be arranged at a lateral inclination as shown in Fig. 2 when the entire edge thereof will operate. The plane is also provided on the outer side thereof with a handle f, and the operation of the device will be readily understood from the foregoing description, when taken in connection with the accompanying drawing and the following statement thereof.

In practice the pivot block b is secured centrally of the meat block as shown in the drawing, and the handle 7 of the plane is grasped in the right hand and the plane is Patented Aug. 31, 1909.

moved around the block in the direction of the arrow 00 in Fig. 1. In this operation the rod (Z may be grasped by the left hand at 3 in order to aid in steadying the plane and applying pressure thereto, or the left hand may be placed on the knob or head Zr of the block I) to steady the operator. In the operation of the plane the rod (.Z may be made rigid by means of the set screw (Z or the outer end portion of said rod may be allowed to swing on the pivotal connection of the separate parts thereof at (Z so to enable the plane to move in a vertical plane.

The meat block a is provided with an annular space a which indicates that the plane has been passed around said block and a shaving or strip cut off. WVith the plane and the blade 0* thereof of the width shown, it would be necessary to pass said plane around the block twice to cut oil a strip or shaving of the width indicated at a and I have also indicated on the block at a the beginning of the cutting off of a third strip or shaving.

It will be understood that the rod d must be adjusted in pivot block b, as the operation of dressing the meat block proceeds, and with the pivot block Z) in the center of the meat block as shown in Fig. 1, all the top surface of the said meat block may be re dressed except the central portion thereof, and the pivot block Z) may be replaced on the outer edge portion of the meat block at any desired point and the plane may be so manipulated as to re-dress the central portion of said meat block.

My invention is not limited to the particular form of plane herein shown and described, nor to the other details of construction as herein set out, and various changes therein and modifications thereof may be made, within the scope of the appended claims, without departing from the spirit of my invention or sacrificing its advantages.

Having fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

1. The herein described means for dressing a meat block comprising a plate provided at its bottom side with teeth adapted to be driven into the block, a block rotatably mounted on said plate, a rod or bar passing loosely through said block and adjustable therein, and a plane rotatably mounted on the outer end of said rod or bar.

2. The herein described means for dressing a meat block comprising a plate provided at its bottom side with teeth adapted to be driven into the block, a block rotatably mounted on said plate, a rod or bar passing loosely through said block and adjustable therein, and a plane rotatably mounted on the outer end of said rod or bar, said rod or bar being composed of two parts pivotally connected and the outer end portion thereof being adapted to swing in a vertical plane.

3. The herein described means for dressing a meat block comprising a plate pro vided at its bottom side with teeth adapted to be driven into the block, a block rotatably mounted on said plate, a rod or bar passing loosely through said block and adjustable therein, and a plane rotatably mounted on the outer end of said. rod or bar,'said rod or bar being composed of two parts pivotally connected and the outer end portion thereof being adapted to swing in a vertical plane, and the separate parts of said rod or bar being provided with means whereby they may be locked together rigidly.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my invention I have signed my name in presence of the subscribing witnesses this 17th day of September, 1908.

DOMINIC F. DEMPSEY.

\Vitnesses James T. BLAIR, JAMES OCoNNon. 

